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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Counterterrorism Evolves".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to United Airlines Flight 93?
(a) Crashed into the Pentagon.
(b) Crashed into the South Tower.
(c) Crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
(d) Crashed into the North Tower.

2. By 1991, bin Laden had forged alliances with Muslim terrorist groups and succeeded in recruiting _________ Muslims for terrorist attacks against U.S. targets.
(a) American.
(b) African.
(c) Korean.
(d) Canadian.

3. Any order to shoot down a passenger aircraft had to come from the President or who?
(a) The Vice President.
(b) The U.S. Air Force.
(c) The Secretary of Defense.
(d) The U.S Army.

4. Approximately what fraction of the hijackers set off the metal detectors or otherwise aroused the suspicion of airport security?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/3.
(d) All.

5. In the late __________ NORAD carried out exercises for a scenario in which terrorists would hijack and use commercial airliners as weapons.
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 2000s.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ increasingly became the province of non-sate actors during the 1980s and 1990s?

2. In Bin Laden's view, who is Islam's principal enemy?

3. Where did NORAD assumed that hijacked airline terrorist threats would originate?

4. By the late 1970s, what began to get directly involved in counter-terrorist operations?

5. When did Bin Laden last warn of potential attacks against the U.S.?

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